#29 BALLET NATIONAL DE MARSEILLE & ICK AMSTERDAM

CREATIVE RESIDENCY / WORLD PREMIERE

[EN] Disparition, the second part of the diptych Apparition - Disparition, is an ode to disappearing. When something or someone appears it is only to disappear again and where something or someone disappears, something new will appear, if perhaps in a different shape or appearance. Like the phoenix rises from its ashes to be reborn.

Disparition picks up where Apparition left off. 12 bodies, music, projections, lighting, a radio presenter and children's voices come together in the ether, an interspace where everything vanishes and emerges, where bodies yearn for a voice and voices yearn for a body. A sensorial and intuitive experience that starts in the dark and emerges into the light via blue – red – yellow with innocence and hope, from a simple black to a complex white hole.

Greco and Scholten worked with the dancers on the strength and vulnerability of intuition, naïvety, urgency and innocence. These character values that are vanishing from our present-day society more and more are embraced by the dance. What if they too disappear; what will remain then? The dancers strive to anchor their existence no matter how transitory and ineffectual it may seem.

In this multidisciplinary performance, projections create a mystical spirits realm of dissolved movements and (in)tangible memories. In the ether, the dancers face a confrontation with edited pop songs by the likes of David Bowie, Björk and Radiohead cut with electronic music, radio and children's voices.